JSON-RPC call to bitcoind error, 403 failed to open stream

Question

I am trying to make a json-call to a VPS server that hosts my wallet and it is failing with the following error message :

Warning:  fopen(http://user:pass@ip:port): failed to open stream: HTTP request           failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
in C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\USBWebServer\root\php\jsonRPCClient.php on line 132

Fatal error:  Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'Unable to connect to     http://user:pass@ip:port' in     C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\USBWebServer\root\php\jsonRPCClient.php:140
Stack trace:
#0 C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\USBWebServer\root\php\testrpc.php(15): jsonRPCClient- >__call('getinfo', Array)
#1 C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\USBWebServer\root\php\testrpc.php(15): jsonRPCClient-   >getinfo()
#2 C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\USBWebServer\root\index.php(154): include('C:\Users\Owner\...')
#3 {main}
thrown in C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\USBWebServer\root\php\jsonRPCClient.php on line 140 

i got my JsonRPCClinet.php file from here http://jsonrpcphp.org/code.php?file=jsonRPCClient

my bitcoin.conf file is as follows:

server=1 
daemon=1
listen=1
rpcuser=user
rpcpassword=pass    
rpctimeout=16
rpcallowip=0.0.0.0
rpcport=8332

i am aware that 0.0.0.0 is dangerous , i will change it once i can get things working

i am calling json-rpc using this php code

<?php
  require_once 'jsonRPCClient.php';

  /* Configuration variables for the JSON-RPC server */
    $rpc_host = 'ip';
    $rpc_port = '8332';
    $rpc_user = 'user';
    $rpc_pass = 'pass';

    $btc = new jsonRPCClient('http://' . $rpc_user . ':' . $rpc_pass . '@' . $rpc_host . ':' . $rpc_port);

  echo "<pre>\n";
  print_r($btc->getinfo()); echo "\n";
  echo "Received: ".$btc->getreceivedbylabel("BEkpbpYLpwacchSQFRCL7ZSWw3VwB8k7WN")."\n";
  echo "</pre>";
?> 

additionally i have opened port 8332 on my VPS

can anyone see any reason why this error is occurring, i would greatly appreciate the help

Answer 1

I just read through the code that handles rpcallowip, and I can tell you that rpcallowip=0.0.0.0 won't work.

If you want to allow from all addresses, you should use

rpcallowip=0.0.0.0/0

(Weirdly, I can't find any code that handles wildcards. I'm going to open an issue on github about it. It looks like either the documentation or the code is wrong.)

Edit: It turns out that wildcard support has been removed.